Learning Curve

MinnPost's education reporting is made possible by a grant from the Bush Foundation.

Beth Hawkins writes about education in Learning Curve. Hawkins has covered a variety of subjects for MinnPost since its launch in 2007, but has a particular passion for reporting on education. In addition to her conviction that education is one of today's most pressing issues on a policy level, she's motivated by her experience advocating for her two sons in great schools and not-so-great ones.

Superintendent Bernadeia Johnson likes to say that culture will eat strategy for lunch. What if the culture she has been trying to change at MPS for four years has taken a fatal bite out of her once-bold strategy?

Next month, Monserrate will leave the MPS board after a single term — an experience that caused him to become skeptical that a sprawling institution like Minneapolis Public Schools can be turned around.